Most newspapers comics are frozen in time ... Even more than the text, what lingers about that strip is the first-panel drawing of the dead bird itself. Mention it to most Calvin & Hobbes fans ...

A simple strip that reframed a banal human tradition ... "Before Twitter, you could do 12- or 16-panel comics and people would read them," Stevens says. "Attention spans have changed.

positing that every element in a “Nancy” panel adheres not to a comic strip but rather to “the blueprint of a comic strip.” From floors to fauna to motion lines, everything is in crucial ...

Few gag-a-day strips ... the comic’s roots, and thus a marked change from the glossier look of Gilchrist’s era. She constructs jokes patiently, often using the idea of the comics panel itself ...

Readers look at each panel (from left to right ... You will be creating a comic strip to show what happened when Christopher Columbus set out to explore the world. Watch the following clip ...